Alkezia

[Alkezia Admin]

What would you do if your world started to _{fall apart}?

Would you fight for what you thought you knew, or would you watch the city burn

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+Welcome to Alkezia+
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For five hundred years the city of Alkezia has stood for peace and has worked for the reunification of a splintered world. It alone breaks the continuous Wall that stretches around the globe, separating the people of the world into those with powers and those without. What made them separate in the first place is something no one really knows, although the Gifted blame it on the Non-Gifted and vice versa, each having their own versions of the story that have gotten so embellished and twisted over time that no one really knows the truth of what happened anymore. Alkezia alone stands between these two warring nations, providing a haven for all those who wish to work for a better, brighter future.

No one really knows exactly when Alkezia was founded during the First War, but everyone knows the story about why it was founded. Alzekia, a gifted woman, had fallen in love with a non-gifted man called Beroan. The details of what happened get fuzzy at this point, but the generally accepted story is this. Both Alzekia and Beroan were against the war with every fiber of their being and met despite their disapproving fellows. At one such meeting, Alzekia was murdered by a non-gifted (according to the gifteds, the non-gifteds say another gifted killed her) and Beroan, torn apart by grief, took his own life so that he could be with his beloved Alzekia forever.

Alzekia's twin, Alkezia, had witnessed the tragic demise of the two star crossed lovers and was in that moment convinced that the war was a wrong, evil thing. Alkezia used all of her considerable wealth to not only build the city which was later named after her, but also to build the wall to keep the two factions from killing each other. The city she founded became a symbol of hope for the future, and Alkezia devised a plan to try and lessen the tensions between the groups overtime. In order to stop the fighting, she believed, one needed to teach the youth of both gifteds and non-gifteds that the other group was not as strange or bad as they thought they were. To accomplish this goal, Alkezia built the Maribelle Institute within her city, making it a place where teenagers from both sides of the line could come together and attend one school.

The plan was to teach both groups tolerance, not that this worked.

Over time the original purpose of Alkezia was forgotten, and the Maribelle Institute became the cities entire purpose as the numbers of neutral people dwindled down to almost nil. The institute itself slowly moved away from its original purpose as well, and simply became a new battleground for the two factions. Both parties would send their best and brightest to the Institute in order to try and show the other one up, and the students themselves weren't exactly keen on mingling with those from across the wall and segregate themselves into factions. Despite all of this Alkezia has managed to avoid a major confrontation between the two, and so far its purpose has been achieved, more or less, seeing as not only has Alkezia itself survived but the two countries haven't gone to war with each other since.

However, tensions are starting to rise higher than ever before, and the current leaders of the city have to toe a fine line in order to make sure they don't give either side an excuse to start the fighting all over again. But as the new school year starts, nothing happens. Life in Alkezia goes on as usual, and for a while the leaders of the city think they can breathe easy again.

Until, of course, they see the writing on the wall.[/blockquote][/size]